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Copy, Observe, Imagine

The pages beneath this one are intended to keep organized an array of materials for the artist in one place. Links to other resources on the internet are helpful at times, but they cannot be controlled in that with time they may disappear or change. To begin with they may also have a different format that may make them a challenge to read or use. I dislike technologies that bury their content in tricky interfaces and can’t be counted on over time.

For my own needs my philosophy on information learning is that subjects need to be learned little-by-little and if I mean to retain a certain knowledge, I can also tend to the task of preserving it and maintaining such resources.

This can be tricky when materials are often copyrighted. For this reason I believe that all good materials worth saving and presenting are those which have found their way honestly into the public domain. This is most often because of time passed since they were authored. It may be also made available by those who make their profit on presentation skills instead of the mere materials themselves. In my opinion, those individuals may choose to freely share their materials instead of holding jealously onto them.

To learn any subject we must do the following:

  1. Copy the work of others who came before us
  2. Observe that which is around us
  3. Imagine new ways of exploring using what we learn

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